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Away Newgrounds

Redundancy.
Reimagined.

Start with a holiday. Try real careers on real land. Find your next chapter — properly.

Talk to us How it works
Standard outplacement
A career coach and a slide deck
LinkedIn profile refresh
Job board access
Abstract. Forgettable.
Away Newgrounds
A real holiday on real land
Trial 3 different careers physically
Practitioner mentorship & connections
Genuine. Measurable. Memorable.
3.2×Higher transition completion vs coaching
+41%HRV improvement — land immersion
75%Career clarity within 30 days
4.9Participant satisfaction
The programme

Four steps.
One genuine new chapter.

No workshops. No slide decks. You try real careers on real land — and you build your next chapter from what you actually feel, not what looks good in theory.

01
The holiday
Try everything

3–5 days across 2–3 different land-based properties. No pressure. Premium accommodation and meals. Just try.

02
Immersion
Go deeper

2–4 weeks working alongside a practitioner in the industry that called you. Real work. Real mentorship. The body knows.

03
Pathway
Build the plan

A real transition framework — employment connections, land acquisition options, training pathways. Built on what was felt, not assumed.

04
Launch
Keep going

12 months of community access, signal tracking and check-ins. Real introductions into the industry. Not theoretical ones.

A real journey

From accounts clerk
to landcare practitioner.

Priya worked in accounts at a financial services firm for 14 years. Her role was made redundant in March. Her employer offered her Away Newgrounds. Eight months later she is leading a landcare crew in the Snowy Mountains.

This is what her programme looked like.

Gifted experience
Land experience
Online / virtual
Ceremony
Week 0 — Before the programme
Gift — from a colleague
Away Gift Card — "Start somewhere"
A colleague gave Priya an Away gift card with a note: "You've been talking about getting out of the city for years. Now you have to." She used it on a New Moon Ceremony guide — her first Away experience, done alone in her kitchen the week she was made redundant.
Free ceremony guide · at home · 40 minutes
Week 1
Ceremony — online with Marco
Threshold Ceremony — "Marking the end"
Priya booked an online fire ceremony with Marco Aurelio. Two hours. She had never done anything like it. She said afterwards: "I didn't realise I was grieving a career I'd actually loved. I hadn't let myself feel that."
A$65 · online · 2 hrs · Marco Aurelio
Weeks 2–3 — The Discovery Holiday
Land — working stay
Working Stay — Horticulture, Hunter Valley
First land experience. Three days working a market garden in the Hunter Valley. Priya says she cried on day two — not from sadness but from something she couldn't name. HRV improved 38% in three days.
A$1,800 · 3 nights · Hunter Valley · Bec Morrison
Week 3 continued
Land — working stay
Working Stay — Native Veg & Landcare, Snowy Mountains
Second property, same week. Native vegetation and landcare alongside Ruth. This was the one. Priya knew by day two. She asked if she could stay an extra day. Ruth said yes.
A$900 · 2 nights · Snowy Mountains · Ruth Calloway
Weeks 4–5 — Back home, between stays
Online — session series
Monthly Sessions with Ruth — "What does this actually look like?"
Three fortnightly online sessions with Ruth. Not career coaching — practical conversations about what landcare work involves, what qualifications exist, what the job market looks like, and whether Priya could actually do this.
A$45/session · online · 3 sessions · Ruth Calloway
Weeks 4–8 — Daily practice
At home — daily practice
The Dawn Practice — 7-week morning sequence
Priya started the Away dawn practice guide — 30 minutes each morning before the kids woke up. She says it was the thing that kept her grounded between the big experiences. "I stopped catastrophising. I started thinking clearly."
Free · at home · daily · 7 weeks
Weeks 6–9 — The Immersion
Land — extended placement
3-Week Landcare Placement — Snowy Mountains
Three weeks back at Ruth's property in an extended working placement. Real landcare work — vegetation surveys, planting programmes, erosion control. By week two, Priya was running the morning crew briefing.
Included in Transition programme · 3 weeks
Week 8 — Mid-immersion
Ceremony — on land
The Silence Stay — 3 days on Ruth's property
Ruth suggested Priya take three days of silence mid-placement. She did it reluctantly. "I didn't think I needed it. I needed it. Something finally settled."
Included in Immersion programme · 3 days
Month 8
✓
Priya is now a landcare team leader in the Snowy Mountains.
Employed by a regional NRM organisation. Studying a Certificate III in Conservation and Land Management part-time. Looking at a land acquisition through Petrichor in 2027. Her HRV is the best it has been in a decade. Her employer considers the Newgrounds investment one of the best decisions they made in a difficult year.
Industries we trial

Careers that can't be automated.

Every industry in Newgrounds shares one quality: it requires physical presence, skilled judgment and relationship with living systems. These are not fallback options. They are genuinely good careers with growing demand.

Regenerative Agriculture
Primary industry
Regenerative Agriculture
Soil health, livestock, land management. Chronic skills shortage. Major government investment. One of the fastest-growing sectors in Australian ag.
High demandLand pathways
Horticulture
Food production
Horticulture & Market Gardening
From seed to market. High-margin, community-connected. Low barriers to operating independently within a few years.
Independent operationDirect markets
Forestry & Landcare
Land stewardship
Forestry & Landcare
Native vegetation, ecological restoration, carbon stewardship. Major investment from carbon markets and NRM organisations. Deeply meaningful long-horizon work.
Carbon economyNRM employment
Viticulture
Specialty production
Viticulture & Specialty Food
Wine, olive oil, artisan food production. Premium market. Strong lifestyle component. Many participants build their own operations within 2–3 years.
Premium marketEntrepreneurial
Livestock
Animal husbandry
Livestock & Pastoral
Cattle, sheep, emerging species. Strong export markets. One of the most transferable skill sets for people moving from operational corporate roles.
Export marketsRegional employment
Renewable Energy
Energy transition
Renewable Energy & Infrastructure
Solar, wind, land-based energy. Australia's fastest-growing employment sector. Significant skills crossover from technical and project management roles.
Fastest growingTechnical crossover
Programme options

Pick a tier.
Employer-billed.

All programmes include the discovery holiday, signal tracking, practitioner mentorship and 12 months community access.

Discovery
1 week
A$4,500
per participant · employer-billed
3–5 day discovery holiday, 2 properties
Premium accommodation and meals included
Away signal tracking throughout
One practitioner intro session
Personal transition report
3 months community access
Enquire
Most chosen
Transition
3–4 weeks
A$6,500
per participant · employer-billed
Everything in Discovery
2-week extended working placement
Weekly practitioner mentorship
Structured pathway plan with real contacts
Employment and land pathway options
12 months community and signal access
Enquire
Immersion
6–8 weeks
A$8,500
per participant · employer or self-funded
Everything in Transition
4–6 week placement with dedicated mentor
Land acquisition pathways via Petrichor
Workforce Australia funding support
Industry certification pathways
12 months post-programme mentorship
Enquire

Group pricing for 5+ participants. Workforce Australia co-funding eligibility in progress.

For employers

The package your people
will actually remember.

When someone is made redundant, what they're offered tells them — and everyone watching — what the company actually values. A LinkedIn refresh says one thing. A week on real land in a new industry says another.

Away Newgrounds is also increasingly requested by employees directly. Offering it as part of a redundancy package changes the nature of the conversation entirely.

Talk to us about Newgrounds
"
My company offered this as part of my redundancy. I expected corporate and hollow. I came home with a completely different question in my head. By month six I was working on land.
James T. · Former Programme Director
Departing staff speak well of the company
Because they were given something genuinely useful
Remaining team see it as evidence of values
How you treat people leaving tells people staying everything
ESG-reportable wellbeing intervention
Biometric outcomes measured and documented throughout